Parides panthonus explained

Parides panthonus, the panthonus cattleheart, is a butterfly of the family Papilionidae. It is found in the Guianas and Suriname.^[1]

Subspecies

• P. p. panthonus (Suriname, the Guianas)
• P. p. barbotini Brévignon, 1998 (eastern French Guiana)
• P. p. phylarchus (Hopffer, 1865) (French Guiana)

Description from Seitz

[Red instead of white marginal spots. The hind tibiae of the males are always dilated and with fine hairs.The red spots on the hindwing have no opalescent gloss] P. panthonus. Forewing in both sexes black, with reddish marginal spots; hindwing with a regularly curved row of separated red spots. Scent-wool white. Guiana and [following text refers to ''[[Parides burchellanus]] (Westwood, 1872) Brazil, in two subspecies. —numa Boisd. (= jaguarae Foett), from Brazil (São Paulo and Minas Geraes), has small, widely separated spots. — In panthonus Cr. (3 b, 5 a), from the three Guianas, the spots on the hindwing are somewhat larger. This form most probably occurs also on the north side of the Lower Amazon] ^[2]

Description from Rothschild and Jordan(1906)

A full description is provided by Rothschild, W. and Jordan, K. (1906)^[3] Note Papilio numa Boisduval, 1836 is Parides burchellanus jaguarae (Foetterle, 1902)

Taxonomy

Parides panthonus is a member of the aeneas species group^[4]

The members are

• Parides aeneas
• Parides aglaope
• Parides burchellanus
• Parides echemon
• Parides eurimedes
• Parides lysander
• Parides neophilus
• Parides orellana
• Parides panthonus
• Parides tros
• Parides zacynthus

Notes and References

1. Book: Collins . N. Mark . Morris . Michael G. . Threatened Swallowtail Butterflies of the World: The IUCN Red Data Book . 1985 . . Gland & Cambridge . 978-2-88032-603-6 . Biodiversity Heritage Library.
2. Jordan, K., in Seitz, A. (1907) . The Macrolepidoptera of the World. 5: The Macrolepidoptera of the American faunistic region. Papilionidae 1-45.
3. Rothschild, W. and Jordan, K. (1906). A revision of the American Papilios. Novitates Zoologicae 13: 411-752. (Facsimile edition ed. P.H. Arnaud, 1967) and online
4. Edwin Möhn, 2007 Butterflies of the World, Part 26: Papilionidae XIII. Parides Verlag Goecke & Evers Verlag Goecke & Evers